Earth's History Flocab

Fossil remains of a trilobite are most likely to be found in which type of rock?

• igneous

• volcanic

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What role do faults play in the Law of Superposition?

• Faults create new types of rock.

• Faults are younger than the layers they cut through.

• Faults are the same age as the layers they cut through.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Many fossils of large amphibians were found in an area that is currently barren desert. Which is most likely true?

• The climate of the area was once much wetter than it is now.

• Amphibians were once better at surviving in dry environments.

• The amphibians migrated there after a catastrophic event destroyed their habitats.

• The amphibians are not native to the area and their bones were brought there by other animals.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which type of dating method can be used on rock layers by applying the Law of Superposition?

• relative dating

• absolute dating

• radioactive dating

• radiometric dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The idea states the same processes that occurred in the past operate in the same way as they do in the present.

• Absolute Dating

• Relative Dating

• Catastrophism

• Uniformitarianism

Fossils can tell us all of the following information about an organism except:

• How the animals might have traveled

• What kinds of food the organism eats

• What type of environment the organism may have lived in

• The organism's life expectancy (or how long the organism will live) 

Several different fossils were found in rock layers in a geologic column.  Above these rock layers, the fossils were almost nonexistent.  Which most likely explains these observations?

• nonconformity occurred

• the organisms migrated.

• a period of mass extinction occurred.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What element is usually used to date fossils?

• uranium-235

• carbon-14

• mercury-203

• thorium-234

The age of a rock compared to the ages of other rocks is the rock's

• absolute age

• geologic age

• sedimentary age

• relative age

If the same species of reptile was found in Africa and south america, what could this evidence support?

• the used to be a land bridge between Africa and South America

• That reptiles swam accross the ocean

• Africa and South America used to be joined together

• humans moved the reptiles from one continent to the other.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3